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noodle

Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩]

The English word “noodle” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
  2. An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
  3. A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.
  4. The penis.
  5. A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
  6. A borzoi dog.
  7. A person with poor judgment; a fool.
  8. The brain; the head.
  9. An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.

verb

  1. To fool or trick (someone).
  2. To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
  3. To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
  4. To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
  5. To ponder or think about (something).
  6. To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
  7. To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
  8. To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
  9. Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
  10. To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
  11. To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el…

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